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Privacy and data protection in India and Germany : a comparative analysis

Arora, Kim - 2020

This research report offers a comparative analysis of privacy and data protection in Germany and India. It compares the two regimes on four counts. First, it examines how the right to privacy and/or its allied rights have developed in the two countries historically. In this, it explores the...

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Regulatory compliance with limited enforceability : evidence from privacy policies

Ganglmair, Bernhard; Krämer, Julia; Gambato, Jacopo - 2024

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of 2018 introduced stringent transparency rules compelling firms to disclose, in accessible language, details of their data collection, processing, and use. The specifics of the disclosure requirement are objective, and its compliance is easily...

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Competition and privacy in online markets : evidence from the mobile app industry

Kesler, Reinhold; Kummer, Michael E.; Schulte, Patrick - 2019

Policy makers are increasingly concerned about the combination of market power and massive data collection in digital markets. This concern is fueled by the theoretical prediction that more market power causes firms to collect ever more data from their users. We investigate the relationship...

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Behavioral forces driving information unraveling

Benndorf, Volker; Kübler, Dorothea; Normann, Hans-Theo - 2022

Information unraveling is an elegant theoretical argument suggesting that private information may be fully and voluntarily surrendered. The experimental literature has, however, failed to provide evidence of complete unraveling and has suggested senders' limited depth of reasoning as one...

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The value of decentralization using the blockchain

Reuter, Marco - 2022

Although blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies have grown in popularity over the past years, there does not seem to be a consensus if they bring any value to economic interactions. In this paper, I argue that a fundamental value the blockchain provides is commitment. I develop a model of an...

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Cybersecurity and financial stability

Anand, Kartik; Duley, Chanelle; Gai, Prasanna - 2022

Cyber attacks can impair banks operations and precipitate bank runs. When digital infrastructure is shared, banks … banks interacts with the ex post coordination frictions underpinning bank runs. While the temptation to free-ride induces … sensitive to rollover risk and bank heterogeneity. Regulatory measures, including negligence rules, liquidity regulation and …

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Bayesian privacy

Eilat, Ran; Eliaz, Kfir; Mu, Xiaosheng - 2022

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Digitale Zivilgesellschaft in Deutschland : Stand und Perspektiven 2014

Dobusch, Leonhard - 2014

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Markets for leaked information

Huck, Steffen; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2016 - (Revised February 2016)

We study markets for sensitive personal information. An agent wants to communicate with another party but any revealed information can be intercepted and sold to a third party whose reaction harms the agent. The market for information induces an adverse sorting effect, allocating the information...

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Privacy and platform competition

Dimakopoulos, Philipp; Sudaric, Slobodan - 2018

We analyze platform competition where user data is collected to improve adtargeting. Considering that users incur privacy costs, we show that the equilibrium level of data provision is distorted and can be inefficiently high or low: if overall competition is weak or if targeting benefits are...

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